Libusha Kelly
Microbiome, drugs, phages, ecology, AI, the Bronx
- Reposted by Libusha KellyI am super happy to share this paper in its final form. We used FIB milling to "dig in to" cell lines and mouse brains infected with tick-borne flaviviruses, followed by cryo-ET to study the virus replication. It's open access, so have a look! #virology #teamtomo www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Libusha KellyOur latest. Led by the very talented @ahoiching.bsky.social Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
- Reposted by Libusha KellyIt's Friday! ...and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩 Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-46 Highlights: 🇺🇸 Rebecca L. Knoll 🇯🇵 Akito Sakanaka Keynote: 🇺🇸 @simrouxvirus.bsky.social ⭐️ Talks: 🇦🇺 @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @erikbakkeren.bsky.social 🇨🇳 Guanxiang Liang
- Reposted by Libusha Kelly🚨We are hiring a Bioinformatician who will be embedded in our lab and work with members of the NCCR Microbiomes at ETH Zurich, as well as the Institute of Microbiology.🚨 nccr-microbiomes.ch jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
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- Reposted by Libusha KellyWhat kinds of cognitions are possible? Are there discrete classes of cognition? Here's our new paper with @brigan.bsky.social @jordiplam.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social @mkhochb.bsky.social and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2601.12837 We explore basal, neural and human-AI spaces.
- Reposted by Libusha Kelly🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs). Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬 Details in thread 🧵👇 #ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶
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- Reposted by Libusha KellyExpressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...
- Reposted by Libusha KellyMy collaborator at University of Copenhagen, Anders Garm, is looking for a 3 year postdoc to work on bioluminescence, neurobiology and ecology of ctenophores. More information here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
- Reposted by Libusha KellyInterested in virome sequencing on @nanoporetech.com instruments? Check out our latest paper where we publish Twist-ONT, a modified protocol for the Twist Comprehensive Viral Research Panel (by @twistbioscience.com) so that it can be used with ONT. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵1/7 🧪
- Reposted by Libusha KellyI’m thrilled to share our work on phage triggers of the bacterial immune system in its final form @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Libusha Kelly🍄Transposon traffic in the mycocosmos🍄 Fascinating work reveals extensive horizontal TE transfer across fungi (@jromeijn.bsky.social, Iñigo Bañales & @mfseidl.bsky.social; doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...). I wrote a Dispatch to prime non-specialists,check it out here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu.... #TEworldwide
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- Reposted by Libusha KellyIt’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027! See you there!! @wcratcliff.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social #microsky #mevosky
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- Reposted by Libusha KellyLast Friday over dinner, we talked with @svenklumpe.bsky.social and @jnoms.bsky.social about this very creative paper—and quickly went off track. Why? Because, as Sven put it, Vaults ( #Vaults ) remain the “siren 🧜♀️ of cell biology 🔬” intriguing and attractive, but maddeningly hard to figure out. 1/3
- The barrel-shaped structures found by the thousands in most animal cells are one of biology’s biggest mysteries. But although researchers haven’t figured out the function of these “vaults,” they now report a new use for the puzzling particles. Learn more: scim.ag/49pv8mB
- Reposted by Libusha KellyWe're hiring! We're looking for a Locum Editor to cover our chemical biology/biochem. The role can be located in either our London or Pune offices. Planned start date is June 1st. Closing date for applications is Feb 2nd. #chemjobs #chemsky springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
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- Reposted by Libusha KellySciLifeLab PULSE postdoc program focuses on innovative, fundamental, translational research. "The entrepreneurial track sparks the next generation of life-science ventures based on ground-breaking research at universities” says Kristian Sandberg. 🧪🌍 Apply today! www.scilifelab.se/news/pulse-p...
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- Reposted by Libusha KellyCome work with us at Nature Chemistry! We're hiring a locum editor to handle our chembio content in London or Pune.
- We're hiring! We're looking for a Locum Editor to cover our chemical biology/biochem. The role can be located in either our London or Pune offices. Planned start date is June 1st. Closing date for applications is Feb 2nd. #chemjobs #chemsky springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
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- Reposted by Libusha KellyNew in JB: Khan, Palmer & Guan identified the genes for glucosaminyl phosphatidylglycerol biosynthesis, opening the way to study this lipid in P. aeruginosa. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology
- Reposted by Libusha KellyMy time in @martinsteinegger.bsky.social's group is ending, but I’m staying in Korea to build a lab at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine. If you or someone you know is interested in molecular machine learning and open-source bioinformatics, please reach out. I am hiring! mirdita.org
- Reposted by Libusha KellyWe just released #anvio v9, "eunice" 🎉 This version represents over 2,000 changes in the codebase since v8, increasing the total number of programs in the anvi'o ecosystem to 176. Read the release notes: github.com/merenlab/anv... Visit our up-to-date web page: anvio.org
- Reposted by Libusha KellyDeadline is approaching (Feb 9) to apply for a PI position at Institut Pasteur. Come join us and contribute to an amazing scientific environment!!!
- Reposted by Libusha KellyReally happy to see Nature Reviews Genetics dedicate a whole focus issue to the eco-evolutionary genomics of microorganisms. Great to see this field getting the spotlight! www.nature.com/collections/...
- Reposted by Libusha Kelly🚨Call for papers🚨 Microbial Evolution: Impacts on Human Health in the society journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Guest Editors: Bob Woods, Silvie Huijben & Camilo Barbosa EIC: me This will be great, please submit and share! academic.oup.com/emph/pages/m...
- Reposted by Libusha KellyThe final form of my 2nd postdoc paper with the Bassler Lab! Turns out our favorite quorum-sensing phage isn’t a one-off, but rather a member of a globally dispersed family of phages that sense a universal autoinducer. #phagesky #microsky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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- Reposted by Libusha KellyWhat an extraordinary joy it is to finally be able to share this work with the world. If any of you are excited by chemoproteomics or new tools on the covalent warhead toolbox I think this paper may be right up your alley 💕
- Is arginine the new cysteine?! Check out our lab's latest in collaboration with @ianseiple.bsky.social's team where we introduce ninhydrin as a selective covalent warhead and probe targeting reactive arginines. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Libusha KellyIs arginine the new cysteine?! Check out our lab's latest in collaboration with @ianseiple.bsky.social's team where we introduce ninhydrin as a selective covalent warhead and probe targeting reactive arginines. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Libusha KellyIf you are looking to integrate your latest genetic creation into the genome of your favourite bug, you might find our latest review now out in OUP Synthetic Biology useful. 🧬⚒️ Work led by Riesa Rohmat with input from Thea Irvine and Shivang Joshi. #genome #synbio doi.org/10.1093/synb...
- Reposted by Libusha KellyCongratulations to Sean Yu-Hao Wang, Will DePas, @catarmbruster.bsky.social and colleagues on their use of experimental evolution to identify regulators of Mycobacterium abscessus biofilm production! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Libusha Kelly📣 preprint alert! We sampled #klebsiella isolates from💩 patients when they entered the hospital & 🩸 after development of infection. 🎯 We tracked phenotypic changes & correlate them w genotypic changes. @klebclub.bsky.social -in collab with Clermont-Ferrand lab #microsky 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202...
- Reposted by Libusha KellyIf you are a senior researcher (i.e., associate prof level or later), and you're interested in moving to the University of Waterloo (best CS program in Canada) for the Canada Impact+ Research Chair (biggest chair position in Canada, $$$$$), email me. Discretion guaranteed.
- Reposted by Libusha KellyThe distinction between virulent & temperate phages gets fuzzier if one can find so many virulent phages in the sequences of bacterial genomes coming from standard lab "pure" cultures. Check Peter's thread on our work and the N&V by Carson & Hynes: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #phagesky #microsky
- [1/3] Is your favorite bacterial isolate hiding a surprise lytic virus with a VERY different lifestyle? Finally I can proudly say that our paper on persistent phages is out in Nature Microbiology. rdcu.be/eWJEp. Well done @peterdoug.bsky.social
- Reposted by Libusha KellyNew preprint from my lab (with Arya Kaul, @fernpizza.bsky.social, and @brinda.eu), in which we explore new genes hitchhiking on the beneficial deletion that fused them together, and find them in the LTEE, M. Tb/bovis, and across the bacterial tree of life
- Novel genes arise from genomic deletions across the bacterial tree of life biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Libusha KellyA new year brings new opportunities: we are looking to fill a permanent professorship position with a Microbiologist preferably with expertise on archaeal biology, RNA biology or imaging techniques to unravel cell biology in prokaryotes! Please share and/or apply :)! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
- Reposted by Libusha KellyHappy new year! The second big project of my PhD in Rachel Whitaker's lab is now up! 🎉 We look at how provirus infection affects the evolution of the bacterial chromosome with different types of viral induction – with CRISPRs or antibiotics. Take a peek 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Libusha KellyNew manuscript alert. Turns out that calcium ion coordination may be a more common mechanism than we initially expected to trigger polymerization of extracellular filaments. @mikesleutel.bsky.social @vikramalva.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Libusha KellyNLR-like immunity in bacteria A new study from the Alex Gao lab. The scope of this work is incredible!!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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- 🚨New paper! A prophage-encoded sRNA limits lytic phage infection in adherent-invasive E. coli. Huge thanks to members of the Round Lab, @duerkoplab.bsky.social, Wiedenheft Lab, and phage legend Sherwood Casjens. #microsky 🦠🧫🧪🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Libusha KellyProud to announce SimPhyNI, a new tool for bacterial GWAS with higher precision and scalability than existing tools. Try it out and let us know what you think!!
- High Precision Binary Trait Association on Phylogenetic Trees biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
- Reposted by Libusha KellyGrateful to share our paper on gene-specific selective sweeps in human gut microbiomes, now out in Nature! It has been a joy to work with @rwolff.bsky.social, whose insights and hard work made this possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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